As a child, Eleazar Morales bathed in the fresh water along the windy shores of LakeColcibolca. “I opened my eyes beneath the water and brushed my teeth with the sand,” said the longtime Granada ...

Residents were left stunned after a terrifying “mosquito tornado” swept through a village in Nicaragua. The bizarre phenomenon was observed in Lake Cocibolca when thousands of mosquitos swarmed the ...

GRANADA – The Inuit Kayak bar on the shore of Lake Cocibolca used to be a place where tourists could rent a kayak to paddle around on the lake, or sit in the shade under a tree to enjoy a cold beer.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — NOW that Nicaragua has picked a path for a Chinese firm to dig a canal connecting the Caribbean and the Pacific, environmentalists are worried about a huge lake on the route. They ...

One of the two volcanoes that formed Ometepe Island looms over Nicaragua’s Lake Cocibolca—also known as Lake Nicaragua. The island was at the center of a cultural region known to scholars as Greater ...